An Expressive Language for Linear Spatial Database Queries (extended abstract)
Summary: Introduce PFOL, a coordinate-based language sound for linear FO over the reals; SPFOL (safe PFOL-fin) equals SafeEuQL and thus captures classical ruler-and-compass constructions on finite point sets. Provide finite encodings/decodings of semilinear sets and a lifting theorem that moves finite-database query languages to arbitrary linear databases, yielding a syntactic fragment of FO+poly complete for FO+poly-expressible linear queries. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)
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Authors
- 1. Luc Vandeurzen (University of Limburg)
- 2. Marc Gyssens (University of Limburg)
- 3. Dirk Van Gucht (Indiana University)
BibTeX Citation
@inproceedings{vandeurzen_pods98,
address = {New York, NY, USA},
series = {{PODS} '98},
title = {{An Expressive Language for Linear Spatial Database Queries (extended abstract)}},
url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/275487.275500},
doi = {10.1145/275487.275500},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} Symposium on {Principles} of {Database} {Systems}},
publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
author = {Vandeurzen, Luc and Gyssens, Marc and Van Gucht, Dirk},
year = {1998}
}Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
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| Rank | Citing Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4,226 | Safe Constraint Queries | 1998 | PODS | 6.8211482e-05 |
| 4,543 | Exact and Approximate Aggregation in Constraint Query Languages | 1999 | PODS | 6.6388258e-05 |
| 6,184 | Expressive power and data complexity of nonrecursive query languages for lists and trees (Extended Abstract) | 2000 | PODS | 5.9488379e-05 |
| 12,876 | Linear approximation of planar spatial databases using transitive-closure logic | 2000 | PODS | 5.093636e-05 |
| 12,879 | Uniform Generation in Spatial Constraint Databases and Applications | 2000 | PODS | 5.093636e-05 |
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Showing 8 of 8 cited papers.
Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.
| Rank | Cited Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 889 | Constraint Programming and Database Languages: A Tutorial | 1995 | PODS | 0.00013398105 |
| 1,473 | Towards a Theory of Spatial Database Queries (Extended Abstract) | 1994 | PODS | 0.0001066845 |
| 1,890 | Relational Expressive Power of Constraint Query Languages | 1996 | PODS | 9.5330753e-05 |
| 3,544 | On the Decidability of Semi-Linearity for Semi-Algebraic Sets and its Implications for Spatial Databases (extended abstract) | 1997 | PODS | 7.3264444e-05 |
| 3,591 | The LyriC Language: Querying Constraint Objects | 1995 | SIGMOD | 7.279053e-05 |
| 4,165 | Variable Independence and Aggregation Closure | 1996 | PODS | 6.858392e-05 |
| 4,226 | Safe Constraint Queries | 1998 | PODS | 6.8211482e-05 |
| 4,336 | Languages for Relational Databases over Interpreted Structures | 1997 | PODS | 6.7554436e-05 |
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